{"id":349729,"date":"2026-07-23T11:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T11:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349729\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T11:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T11:27:07","slug":"the-lost-art-of-pickling-through-the-tip-top-canning-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349729\/","title":{"rendered":"The lost art of pickling through the Tip Top Canning Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUNEDIN, Fla. &#8212; Work is over!<\/p>\n<p>Grab a drink.<\/p>\n<p>And test some recipes.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time to show how our forebearers survived&#8211;through pickling.<\/p>\n<p>And it\u2019s courtesy of Tampa Bay area Chef John Barbie of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiptopcanning.co\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tip Top Canning Company.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We stopped in on a pickling class at the Dunedin House of Beer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got Tampa, St. Pete, Dunedin and Plant City,\u201d said Barbie, talking about his cities where he passed on the pickling prowess.<\/p>\n<p>Randi Horton is a repeat visitor and has returned with her mahjong buddies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey came over and they ate the pickles, and they were like \u2018This is amazing. How did you do this?\u2019 And I said, \u2018let me tell you,\u2019\u201d said Horton.<\/p>\n<p>And the tell\u2014it turned into a *show and smell.<\/p>\n<p>Julie Closer is after new experiences&#8211;and new recipes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s funny, it\u2019s educational, it\u2019s entertaining, and everything we\u2019ve done smells so fantastic,\u201d said Closer.<\/p>\n<p>But Barbie\u2019s recipes aren\u2019t new to him.<\/p>\n<p>they come from his grandfather Joe Tambuuzo who ran tip top grocery store in Ybor City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it comes to any family get together, it\u2019s about the food, and our family has all these recipes- and I take from my past with passion and love and I put it in my product.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a pickle passion\u2014and part of Tampa\u2019s culinary history.<\/p>\n<p>Also in development \u2013 a class on making the perfect Bloody Mary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DUNEDIN, Fla. &#8212; Work is over! Grab a drink. And test some recipes. It\u2019s time to show how&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[274,104,28,7151,115,139,135,137,136,278,7148],"class_list":["post-349729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-app-top-stories","tag-entertainment","tag-florida","tag-florida-on-a-tankful","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-top-stories","tag-virginia-johnson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}